We are not in control—embrace uncertainty and trust in what emerges. Peter Senge on the legacy and future of Change Management

Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO) - Peter Senge is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and founder of...     

The ‘New Institutionalism’ in Organization Theory: Bringing Society and Culture Back In

This investigation will discuss the emergence of an economistical perspective among the dominant approaches of organization theory in the United States since the inception of “organization studies” as an academic discipline. It maintains that Contingency theory, Resource Dependency theory, Population Ecology theory, and Transaction Cost theory analyze predominantly for-profit organizations within the context of the current economic environment. It further holds that the political and cultural environments, as well as the role of communities, are widely neglected by the economistical perspective. The New Institutionalism departs from this line of thinking and offers an implicit critique. With this focus, this article addresses a sociology of knowledge theme and aims to account for this theoretical limitation by drawing on social developments in the American economy, in American politics, and in the academy. Finally, this study argues that the economization of organization studies is strongly supported by the increasing proliferation of American business schools. Here the science of organization studies has found its new institutional home.     

帮助员工成长

自我超越，创造组织环境，让人获得真正的成长，是领导者的一项重要修炼。今天，大多数公司都支持某种人本的哲理一“员工是我们最重要的财富”，他们花钱做人力资源开发，主要通过培训。但是，真正投入帮助人的成长，所需要的绝不止这些。许多年来，我一直听来自各行业的优秀员工讲述他们的经历，他们故事中的情感内核，始终是一个一虽然来自广泛的生活经历背景，     

Was ist neu am Neo-Institutionalismus?

This paper discusses the specific characteristic of the new institutionalism in comparison with other dominant approaches within US organization studies. The argument is led by the theses that within contingency theory, resource dependency theory, and population ecology the economic environment is of utmost importance and that the economy is regarded as the major sphere of reference, either implicitly or explicitly. A multi-contextual embeddedness between organizations and society is hardly to be found within these theoretical approaches. The new institutionalism departs from this line of thinking, because it considers a variety of different environmental realms and sees organizations as always being embedded within a societal context. I regard this as the central new and distinguishing feature of the new institutionalism. The aim of the paper is to show this distinguishing difference between the new institutionalism and the three approaches.